Organizational/Authorization (TO&E-type) documents of the Italian military

[Eugen Pinak]

I've decided to start a thread to post various organizational/Authorization (TO&E-type) documents of the Italian military. As well as other TO&E data in any form.
Few of those are available in the Internet, so I think it'll be useful for forum members to collect them in one place.

All the TO&Es in this post are from the book "GLI ALBANESI NELLE FORZE ARMATE ITALIANE", which has a lot of information on organization of Albanian troops in Italian military and many original TO&Es attached in documental supplement. Unfortunately it lacks basic TO&Es of Albanian battalion and regiment. Does anybody have details on their organization?

 

[Eugen Pinak]

Part 2 of Albanian TO&Es.

 

[Eugen Pinak]

Part 3 of Albanian TO&Es.

 

[Eugen Pinak]

Part 4 (=final) of Albanian TO&Es.

 

[jwsleser]

I only have a few documents on the Albanian units. Mostly they cover the depot which you have already posted. However you are missing p.3 of allegato n.1 from the depot (folglio 54260/436 dated 1 febbraio 1942, your toe (22) and (23)).

EDIT: it makes sense to post the entire document together in one place.

 

[jwsleser]

The battalions and regiment appear to be covered by foglio n. 0014730/ord del 26/6/1941 which I don't have. These are the mobilization orders for the regiments.

 

[Eugen Pinak]

Thank you for the additions. Both documents are present in the book. I've just missed them when making this thread
Interesting, that the author of the book haven't posted basic TO&Es.

BTW, its interesting to see printed TO&Es typed in cursive, as if they are written by hand.

 

[Francoquarter]

in cursive like are written by typewriting machine
when in the 80s i started use of typewriting machine was common wrote with this characters

 

[jwsleser]

Interesting, that the author of the book haven't posted basic TO&Es.

Having now experienced the Italian archives, I have two thoughts on the matter.

1) Foglio n. 0014730/ord del 26/6/1941 is the same document that authorizes the regular Italian infantry, so is not Albanian specific (unlikely);

2) The documents are lost. I was fortunate in finding collectors that possessed documents and circulars that the archives didn't possess during my research of the paracadutisti. I now believe the many of the gaps in our knowledge is due to missing documents in the records. When I review what is available, the fact that these gaps haven't been filled after all these years of individuals researching in the archives is telling.

Just some thoughts....

Pista! Jeff